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Operation Highlights

Somalia is the country generating the third highest number of refugees in the world, after Afghanistan and Iraq. UNHCR leads protection and emergency relief interventions targeting 700,000 IDPs out of a total IDP population estimated at 1.1 million and over 2,300 refugees in Somalia.

Yemen’s chronic humanitarian crisis threatens to undermine recent moves towards political stability, warned the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator, Mr. Ismail OuldCheikh Ahmed.

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Food security levels are generally better than a year earlier in East Africa and the Sahel, with most areas facing either IPC phase 1 ‘minimal’ or phase 2 ‘stressed’ conditions, thanks to favorable agro-climatic conditions in 2012.

SANA’A [ACTED News] – A poor harvest in 2012 combined with fragile livelihood systems and food price volatility has contributed to increasing food insecurity in Yemen, affecting a staggering 46% of the population. In response to the crisis, ACTED has provided agricultural kits to 6,000 vulnerable households in Ibb, Raymah, and Ad Dhalee Governorates. This project is supported by the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department and the Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).

WFP continues its efforts to deliver food aid to five million people in a challenging operating environment. New funding will be needed by end-June to avoid supply problems.

The Global Overview collates information from a range of sources and displays it in a manner that allows for quick comparison of different humanitarian crises.

Over 182,000 IDPs have returned so far, of which about 146,000 are in 11 districts of Abyan Governorate. About 322,444 IDPs continue to be displaced in the north (Sana’a included) and only 36,845 returnees to Sa’ada Governorate. Ethiopian migrants with the hope of crossing over to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia continue to migrate into Yemen.

KEY DEVELOPMENTS

• More than 87 percent of IDPs in southern Yemen have returned to areas of origin since July 2012 as a result of improved security conditions, according to the U.N. However, less than 11 percent of IDPs in northern Yemen have returned home due to protracted insecurity. A lack of basic services is an issue in both northern and southern areas.